It was a real nightmare when, during a simple routine appointment, he discovered bladder cancer: “I detected the disease by chance, during a routine check-up of the breast, uterus, ovaries… The doctor said that the bladder had certain contours… I had no symptoms at all, I was not urinating blood“, revealed Ana Bustorffin 2019, in an intimate conversation with Daniel Oliveira on the program ‘Alta Definição’, on SIC.
Five years after this revelation, the actress talks about the subject again with Ana Rita Clara on TVI Ficção. She assumes that when you have a diagnosis like the one given to you, you start to have the notion that “It’s all very ephemeral“.”But I was born with the idea that everything is very fast. That tomorrow, we may no longer be here. I have always lived very intensely. For me, the idea that today is this day has always been very clear… tomorrow I don’t know“, he began by saying.
This facet of his personality ended up helping a lot in the way he faced cancer. “It’s a very lonely illness. There is a silence and a stillness that is ours. But sometimes people don’t really understand this place where we are placed. I, by the way, am talkative and have always shared… chemotherapy for me, as incredible as it may seem, was very important. It was a room full of people who I knew were in the same circumstances as me.“, assumes Ana Bustorff.
To be continued: “I did almost everything alone… because I had to. All my brothers were working, many don’t even live in Porto. […] We always need each other, but at that moment those people were more important to me than a person who wasn’t going through this horrible, quote-unquote disease..”
“There is a huge silence. A very great loneliness. But it is anyway. We don’t go in because it’s something very much like us. A confrontation with life, death, illness… a very strange thing“, Ana Bustorff also assumes, recalling a less positive phase of her life.
